Can you hear the bubble?
Death by social networking
Jaiku, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube x2 accounts, Revver, Metacafe, reddit, 43places, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, Vox, Tipped, Dopplr, Fuelmyblog, Stumbleupon, Pownce, Squidoo, TripIt, LinkedIn, Upcoming, Mybloglog, Technorati and probably more I can’t think of right now… Just a few of the social networks I frequent more or less regularly. Scary to think how much competition [...]
FOWA: Some evening fun with Diggnation
After a number of interesting panels in the day, it was time for beers and Diggnation. Think of being 10 years old and looking up to your biggest, most favourite music star. Now imagine the excitement if you were told you’d get to meet them. That’s how I felt yesterday. I filmed a good part [...]
Creating a community
Matthew Haughey, MetaFilter says… “Be the third place; people have home, work and a third community or social attachment. This can be a car enthusiast club, a WoW guild or a website community. Make something they’ll want to spend time on everyday.”
FOWA: We’re not divinating the future
I’m at the Future of Web Apps in London today. So far, I’ve attended the intro keynote with Om Malik and Michael Arrington, followed by Heather Champ & Derek Powazek on “We’ve got this community: Now what?”. I’m now in Tony Conrad’s “Future of Search”. The main running thread of all talks so far is [...]
Update on Twitter username call for help
On Thursday, I got annoyed enough with my half-assed Twitter username, and not getting a response from the team that I made a blog post out of it. The next morning, I woke up to find a response to my feature request from 6th August from Crystal at Twitter: Hello Vero, Thanks for your email, [...]
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